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Biography of Violeta Barrios de Chamorro
Name: Violeta Barrios de Chamorro
Birth Date: 1930
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Rivas, Nicaragua
Nationality: Nicaraguan
Gender: Female
Occupations: political leader, publisher, president
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro
Newspaper magnate, publicist, anti-Somoza leader, and titular head of the United National Opposition, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro (born 1930) was also the first woman president of Nicaragua (1990).Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, known to friends and supporters as "Doña Violeta," was born in the rural southern Nicaraguan town of Rivas in 1930. One of seven children of a wealthy ranching family distinguished for its contributions to Nicaraguan politics, Violeta Barrios as a young girl lived an idyllic, protected life in the countryside where she early became an accomplished equestrian. In her childhood years Nicaragua was wracked by civil war, beset by United States military intervention, shocked by the murder of nationalist hero César Augusto Sandino, and crushed by the ascension of Anastacio Somoza to dictatorial power in 1936.As a teenager, she was sent to the United States to broaden her education and learn English. She attended a Catholic girls' …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…percent and estimated per capita annual income was 0.Chamorro will take a place in her nation's history, but it remains to be seen whether her reign of democracy was an aberration in Nicaraguan history rather than a harbinger of things to come. Associated Organizations Further Reading The election of Violeta Chamorro and the problems she faced were described by Johanna McGeary, "But Will it Work?" TIME (March 12, 1990). An assessment of her first year in office was made by Edward Cody, The Washington Post (April 7, 1991). A book that deals with both Violeta Chamorro and her martyred husband is Patricia T. Edmisten, Nicaragua Divided: La Prensa and the Chamorro Legacy (1990). The Sandinista decade that ended with the election of Chamorro is described by Stephen Kinzer, Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua (1991). Her autobiography, Dreams of the Heart: The Autobiography of President Violeta Barrios de Chamoroo of Nicaragua, was published in 1998.
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